I need good working headphones I can blast eurobeat from and these apple ones I have to use until I get a new cable are dogshit

check the pinned messages in <#365921969004216320>

based

okay the pins don't say shit about MMCX cables but thanks anon

nvm I can't read

found it

imagine aliexpress selling food

wonder how fucking disastrous that would be

they did

and they still do

under the table

wasn't there someone here who almost died because of aliexpress tea?

yes

LMAO

WTF

it was trannyscience @Cole

probably

I have goldfish memory

@androidcrawler are you fucking retarded?

China by forcing their currency to not devaluate helps america

the devaluation occuring now is simply because the government stopped trying to prop up the yuan

For exporting countries, devaluation=good

Dumb cunt stop listening to your orange buffoon

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/china-manipulating-its-currency

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/business/economy/china-currency-manipulator.html

https://www.ft.com/content/39c5e812-bda3-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722

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Do you guys browse Ali with the app or mobile webpage

It's so fucky on my browser

Most people seem to use the app

app

why wouldn't you use the app?

Real chads use the website though

My biggest issue with the site is that you can't remain logged in and have to do the slider thingy that has a 50/50 chance of working to log in

Captcha?

Don't you get the sliding thing

I was so fed up with the app it would send me notifications like 3 times a day

Even if the app is blocked

Yuu have to slide it right then maybe get a captcha depending on your luck

I just blocked it and it stayed blocked

I couldn't access Aliex for a week though

I use the site because I rarely order stuff

When you search, it forced me to login and then got stuck where it would usually show a captcha

Eventually forced it to work through going back to the main page, logging in, searching, then searching again then the slide captcha shows up

Thoughts on this sleeping bag. It's the cheapest down sleeping bag I have found on Aliexpress and seems to have good reviews. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32924074407.html

They make special sleeping bags for people with Down's Syndrome?

Anyone has a good matrix instance? Want to try it out

Nah screw it. I'm still young, fit, and strong. I'll buy the ultralight gear later when my knees start to give in.

If I buy something and it dies within a few hours of using it, should I contact the seller or file a dispute?

Contact then file

Yeah contact the seller first. Ugreen sent me a faulty USB charger, and I contacted them and they refunded me within 3 dys.

Always at least try to touch base with the seller

Why wouldn't the shipping stack

<:FeelsBadMan:589103983558393857>

because fuck you, thats why

im pretty sure the shipping cost is fake, and they are just using it to trick you into thinking the item cost is lower

Not really there is also the option of free delivery but without any tracking

then i dunno

send a message asking for them to combine shipping

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I saw that

seems good

did anyone buy pc components from taobao?

bought 2 PC cases off of TaoBao if that counts

itx cases ?

yeah

Did you pay alot for shipping ?

Xaiomi is a just a logo brand now right? They don't actually make most of the stuff they sell?

yep! they dont even make their phones, Apple actually does that

im just kidding, xiaomi branded shit is pretty high quality but there are exceptions

@Elam Xiaomi incubates other companies to make products *for* them

they just buy startups

wiha is not a startup

It, like all companies, was at one point, I'm sure

But that's just arguing semantics

wiha is a germany company

Xiaomi does collabs too

with Phillips and IKEA

https://china-gadgets.com/xiaomi-ikea-partnership/

god bless the chinese and their disrespect for copyright

legit:

bootleg:

and from what i have read they are high quality bootlegs

Ah fuck reminds me of Lego Exo Force

its a reboot of an 80s japanese toyline

they are cool

but they are fucking expensive

im praying they bootleg this magnificent mechanical moon man

im not gonna pay fucking $200 for it

@Billy Yum Yum Two-By-Two sweet I want one but diablones are too expensive

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33034345083.html

yeah im just going to get bootlegs, in the thread i was in about them people were actually recommending the bootlegs over the real ones since the real ones are so fucking expensive, and the bootlegs are really good

lensple, thats the store ive gotten several of my robots from

im probably going to pick up their omega supreme, one of these days

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32909537623.html

that's nice

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33017206934.html

oh hey they got a mafex spiderman clone

I preordered mine for $100

🤔

oooh, i have the bootleg revoltech spiderman

but the mafex would be nicer for doing more neutral poses

the revo is designed for extreme poses and looks bad relaxed

i orderd this yesterday

the miniature omega supreme

cant wait for it to come in

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32901717214.html

carnage doesnt seem bad eitehr

I should order him

the revoltech is long gone and impossible to find

and revoltechs tend to have shitty paint apps anyways

how bad can a chink clone be?

yeah go ahead and get the bootleg, i have it and its actually impressively nice for how cheap it is

how does one know what kind of comply tips go to an IEM?

You mean size?

aye aye

Lookup the iem specs should have it in mm

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000151081754.html

this looks cute

ooh

blaster

there is a soundwave too

i wish i knew about these bootlegs back when i was big into collecting transformers

same tbh

Only good transformer is Reveal the Shield Lugnut

I dont want to get into the collecting money hole again

https://twitter.com/ZACHxFULLER/status/1173015707522437120?s=19

Only good transformer is Pikachu

@Matthew i have that lugnut, its one of my favorite transformers

Only one you need

It can dab

@Jignx bootleg revo venom

bootleg revo spiderman

bootleg revo carnage

@Billy Yum Yum Two-By-Two thanks for the pics

they look nice

no problem

is venom big though

bigger than a 6 inch figure?

he isnt super *tall* but he is fucking ***beefy***

I found size comparisons

yeah it's bigger

I'll order one

@Jignx nice Carnage, might get for brother. Thanks.

@Billy Yum Yum Two-By-Two owns it not me

i love me some bootlegs

@foxhunt it is a bug in their new website redesign. This sometimes happens to me, but when I unselect the items and rselect them their shipping gets combined.

@₭ⱤŪX TaoBao shipping could be expensive especially if you go through an agent like SuperBuy.

Basically if you know how to speak Chinese, it’s possible to communicate directly with sellers to ship at a much lesser cost since you’re cutting the middle man (SuperBuy).

if you do go with an agent, my experience with SuperBuy has been pretty good. they inspect the items before shipping and send pictures to you to make sure everything is good.

Something like the K39 case would have a shipping cost of like $40-50 to the US through them

i can speak a little mandarin

but I cant read it

wechat them using recorded messages

I wont install a botnet on my PC

I mean phone

tfw found out

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32963567306.html

USPS fugging ghey

so, what forwarders people use nowadays on tao

superbuy has a new service for counterfeit products called "wegobuy"

ok

what should i do for products that are questionable in terms of compatibility

on tao

honestly though the fees from superbuy are a killer, but you get all your shit in one package

there's an rx480 4gb mxm card on tao

shipping makes everything on taobao twice the price, pretty much

but im not sure if its gonna work in a laptop i can feasibly acquire

its $100

aud

/70usd

so its really not a dreadful price even with shipping

but the question remains as if it works at all in any system

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/possible-mxm-rx480-card-on-clevo-laptops.799952/ 🤔

why even bother

comparable gpus are 3x the price

1060 mxm is $500

heres the thing, the rx480 mxms on tao are 4gbs

mobile gaming was a mistake

quite

you can buy a egpu setup for that money

hp 8770w for around $150usd + 3740qm + rx4804gb would be absolutely godly performance for the price

i have egpu already, it's about as stable as a tranny

just like your future chinkcard

I am thinking of buying there(on tao), 9900k ES for 320$ am I retarded?

not really, depends on your local prices

let me upload es guide

@Marlen

@Droidbot thanks, for the guide. Could you recommend me forwarders, particular, for PC hardware from taobao?

My friends use superbuy, I don't buy PC shit too often from there

9900k costs 670$ where I live.

Holy lord

yeah

Coffee Lake and Coffee Lake R use the same microcode between ES and Final, and some are even final stepping

Br?

nah, Kazakhstan, lmao.

Just keep in mind that errata exists between ES and Final, so there may be some problems you won't observe on retail CPUs

Oh lel

Eg P0 stepping PCIE death

I see, probably better to buy 8700k es then.

though, I saw on tao 9900k+motherboard for 3200 yuan.

not ES

Errata exists with 8700k too, but I can't remember all the bugs and Intel docs don't list it

But as long as it is ES2, chips will be perfectly fine for daily use

If you are willing to get down and dirty with BIOS modding you could also pick up a cheap Xeon final, like 2246G

Need 100 series PCH (anything you can get) with management engine permanently neutered

it's 8700k's xeon version?

Effectively, no OC however

Colorful has good GPUs

Had one for a few years, nobissues and about to make a CS gaming computer

I have 1080ti right now, that I bought when I was in US in microcenter 2 years ago. Probably, will stay with it for a long time, until something arrives that can handle 8k 60fps, lol.

Lul, what CPU paired with it atm

4670k

Ayy same, looking into upgrading soon but can't find good cheap ITX options

Have 1070 paired with it, bad CPU bottleneck in eSports shit like Apex Legends and stutter in AAA like FH4

I’m gonna get a Ryzen for my new one, I just hate the inflated prices on GPUs because of MUH CRYPTO

yeah, 4 cores are not enough now.

@goobergopher best off buying cheap mining cards from Taobao or Aliex, prices hit the floor

$50USD RX470s

Etc

I am thinking to wait until PS5 arrives, and look after its specs, then buying something, actually. Maybe itself too(PS5).

More than enough for gaming at reasonable settings 1080p in AAA

@Droidbot I have a colorful gpu otw

Ah

intel are going to release 10th series soon, thinking, if Taobao

's CPU's prices will drop or not, lol.

Always behind a chipset because I wait but I don’t need the fastests stuff

Not meant to really talk about this but there is 8th gen BGA>LGA chips coming soon

150USD for 8700K equiv

L4 cache?

No just ES Hexas with an adapter

Still, insane price to performance

Any good chink CPUs?

I got offered 7820HK ES at 70USD but you need to ME cripple and I couldn't be fucked

I was thinking to upgrade to 4980hq, but in the end thought that was retarded having 4cores 8threads in 2020.

I mean my 4670k @ 4.0 is still my productivity and gaming workstation, I video edit and photo edit purely on this system and it's been great for 5+ years now

Not even sure if I need to upgrade from here, since most of my games are playable competitively

Friend offered me 4790 locked (I'm on H87) for a low price so I'm tempted by that

If you are going 4980HQ, get one now while you still can since they are out of production

probably, just will PSU for now. On computeruniverse.

I was in your position with a 3570k and a 1070

Gpu prices are still shit, and I think you can wait until black Friday to get some combo mobo+cpu deals